Older people of Reddit, how did you guys first come across pornography before the Internet was around?

Under a bridge my brother, a friend of ours, and I found a bag full of old smut magazines. Everything from Playboy to more hardcore stuff. It was all very water damaged so most of the magazines were ruined, but we treated what we salvaged like they were the crown jewels and kept them hidden in a dry, safe place.

Probably someone throwing them away, but they can't throw them in the trash at home because wife, kids, parents etc. I once found a plastic bottle full of cut outs from porn mags in the highlands. They all had writing and really detailed drawings on them.

If a kid got his hands on a porn mag, you didnt want to keep it at home cause your parents might find it, and you wanted to show it off to your friends. So you stash it in the woods and then bring your friends out to see.

Believe it or not, some creepy old dude who ran a store in my neighborhood called "Anything Liquidators" had a big box of dirty magazines in the store and would let kids look through them. His store mysteriously closed down right around the time I got my first modem.